Research

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
*graduate student; **undergraduate student

*Betus, A., Kearns, E.M. & Lemieux, A. "How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as 'Terrorism' or 'Mental Illness.'" Forthcoming, Communication Research
Ghazi-Tehrani, A. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "Biased Coverage of Bias Crime: Examining Differences in Media Coverage of Hate Crimes and Terrorism." Online first, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
Lowrey-Kinberg, B., *Mellinger, H. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "How Social Dominance Orientation Shapes Perceptions of Police." Online first, Policing: An International Journal.
Delehanty, C. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies," Perspectives on Politics, 18(3): 835-850. [replication materials].
**Shupard, M. & Kearns, E.M. (2019). "Why Do Officers Support Community Policing?: A Cross-Departmental Comparison and Cross-Temporal Comparison." Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 37: 665-680.
Kearns, E.M., **Ashooh, E. & Lowrey-Kinberg, B. (2019). "Racial Differences in Conceptualizing Legitimacy and Trust in Police." American Journal of Criminal Justice, 45: 190-214.
Dolliver, M. & Kearns, E.M. (2019). "Is it Terrorism: Public Perceptions, Media, and Labeling the Las Vegas Shooting." Online first, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
Kearns, E.M. (2019). "Claims and Attributions: Why Take Credit for Terrorism?" Online first, Terrorism and Political Violence. *Winner of the 2016 American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology Outstanding Student Paper Award *Winner of the 2015 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Symposium Best Student Paper Award
Kearns, E.M., *Betus, A. & Lemieux, A. (2019). "Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others?" Justice Quarterly, 36(6): 985-1022. [replication materials].
Kearns, E.M., *Betus, A. & Lemieux, A. (2019). "When Data Don't Matter: Exploring Public Perceptions of Terrorism." Online first, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
Kearns, E.M., Asal, V., Walsh, J. Federico, C. & Lemieux, A. (2018). "Political Action as a Function of Political Grievance and Social Identity: An Experimental Approach." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism,43 (11): 941-958.
Kearns, E.M. (2018). "Exploring Officer Views of Community Policing in Counterterrorism." Police Practice and Research, 21 (1): 18-32.
Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2018). "If Torture is Wrong, What about 24?: Torture and the Hollywood Effect." Crime & Delinquency, 64(12): 1568-1589.
Lemieux, A., Kearns, E.M., Asal, V. & Walsh, J. (2017). "Support for Political Mobilization, Protest, and Terrorism in Egypt and Morocco: An Online Experimental Study." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 10(2-3):124-142.
Kearns, E.M. (2017). "Why Are Some Police Officers More Supportive of Community Policing with Minorities than Others?" Justice Quarterly, 34(7): 1213-1245.
Kearns, E.M. (2015). "The Study of Torture: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficult to Eradicate." Laws, 5(1): 1-15.
Kearns, E.M., **Conlon, B.L. & Young, J.K. (2014). "Lying about Terrorism." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 37(5): 422 - 439.

BOOK

Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2020). "Tortured Logic: Why Some Americans Support for Torture in Counterterrorism." Forthcoming, Columbia University Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Young, J.K. & Kearns, E.M. (2016). "Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide," in The Handbook on Homicide, eds. Fiona Brookman, Edward R. Maguire, and Mike Maguire. Wiley-Blackwell.
Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2013). "Military Tactics in Civil War," in The Routledge Companion to Civil War Studies, eds. Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen. Rutledge.

UNDER REVIEW

Kearns, E.M., Federico, C., Asal, V., Walsh, J., Betus, A., Lemieux, A. "Intergroup Images, Grievance, and Support for Protest and Terrorism."
*Senn, S. & Kearns, E.M. "Officer Support for Community Policing with Racial Minorities Post-Ferguson."

WORKING PAPERS - Draft Available

Kearns, E.M. "Why Are Some Crimes Reported to Police While Others Aren't?"
Kearns, E.M. "If You See Something Do You Say Something?: Using Conjoint Experiments to Examine Why People Report Potential Terrorism Activity."
*Bowman, R. & Kearns, E.M. "Variants in Views of Police Across and Within Races."
*Sharo, C. & Kearns, E.M. "When to Call the Police?: How Crime Type and Contextual Factors Impact Crime Reporting."

WORKING PAPERS - Data Collected & Drafting in Progress

Kearns, E.M. "Conceptualizing Legitimacy and Trust in Police Across Racial Group."
Kearns, E.M. "See Something, Say Something?: Reporting Potential Terrorism Activities to Police."
Kearns, E.M. "Teaching Statistics: A Quasi-Experimental Comparison of Traditional versus Flipped Classroom Models."
Kearns, E.M. & Nix, J. "When do Policing Studies Replicate?: A Review of Multi-Agency Studies."
Kearns, E.M. & *Senn, S. "Changes over Time in Officer Support for Community Policing with Minorities."
Fisher, D. & Kearns, E.M. "Theorizing Terrorism within Criminological Scholarship."
Ghazi-Tehrani, A. & Kearns, E.M. "Differentiating Between Terrorism, Hate Crimes, and Other Violence: A Conceptual Approach."
Betus, A., Kearns, E.M. & Becker, M. "Media and Fear of Terrorism."

GOVERNMENT REPORTS

2020. "Terrorism as Communicative and Miscommunicative Violence." In Counterterrorism Yearbook 2020, Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
2015. "When to Claim: A Cross-National Study of Claimed versus Unclaimed Terrorist Attacks." National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Research Brief.
2015. "The Role of Law Enforcement in Fighting Terrorism," in Comprehensive Law Enforcement Review, Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS). Consulting researcher and co-author.
2015. Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS). Consulting researcher.

RESEARCH GRANTS
Funded:

Research Grants Committee (RGC) - $3,000, University of Alabama, 2018-2019.
College Academy for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (CARSCA) - $4,328, University of Alabama, 2018-2019.
Fellow, Peace & Violence Research Lab - $4,000, American University, 2015-2016.
Doctoral Research Award - $4,994, American University, 2015-2016.
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Terrorism Research Award - $5,000, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, 2014-2015.
Faculty Research Support Grant (with Joseph K. Young) – $10,000, American University, 2014.
School of Public Affairs Research Scholars Grant (with Joseph K. Young) – $5,000, American University, 2013.
Undergraduate Summer Scholars Grant–$2,000, Miami University, 2004

SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE
Interviews:

Untenured Tracks, (October 8, 2019)
Police Chief Magazine, (September 2019)
CBC Radio - Vancouver on the Coast, (August 6, 2019)
NPR's "All Things Considered," (March 23, 2018)
"Humanity in the Headlines," (February 24, 2018)
Colorado Public Radio, (November 9, 2017)
ABC Australia, "Radio National," (July 6, 2017)
NPR's "Morning Edition," (June 20, 2017)
NPR's "Hidden Brain" podcast with Shankar Vedantam, (June 19, 2017)
"CBS/KCBS San Francisco with Susan Kennedy," (March 19, 2017)
"CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin," (December 10, 2014)

Web-Based Publications:

Betus, A., Kearns, E.M & Lemieux, A., "Who's a Terrorist and Who's Mentally Ill? We Look at 10 years of News Coverage to Find Out," Washington Post (August 8, 2019).
Kearns, E.M. & Amarasingam, A. "How News Media Talk about Terrorism & What the Evidence Shows," Just Security (April 5, 2019)
Kearns, E.M. "An Expert on Political Violence Explains why the NRA's Ads Matter," The Trace (August 8, 2017)
Kearns, E.M., Betus, A. & Lemieux, A., "Yes, the Media Do Underreport Some Terrorist Attacks, Just Not the Ones Most People Think of," Washington Post (March 13, 2017)
Kearns, E.M., "Torture Doesn't Works, So Why are We Still Discussing It?" Political Violence at a Glance (February 2, 2017)
Kearns, E.M. & Young, J., "Dramatic depictions of torture increase support for it," Washington Post (December 12, 2014)

My Work Featured In:

United Nations Secretary-General's press encounter at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, (March 22, 2019)
The Economist, "Is right-wing terrorism on the rise in the West?," (March 18, 2019)
The Economist, "Why do terrorists claim credit for some attacks but not others?," (February 1, 2019)
The Guardian, "Terror Attacks by Muslims Receive 357% more press attention, study finds," (July 20, 2018)
Think Progress, "America has a Skewed Perception of What Qualifies at Terrorism," (October 4, 2017)
Foreign Policy, "The Rohingya Are the New Palestinians," (September 26, 2017)
MSNBC with Ari Melber, "Study: Media Overrepresents Muslims as Terrorists," (July 2, 2017)
Think Progress, "Non-Muslim Attackers Get a Lot Less Media Coverage than Those Who Claim Islam," (June 19, 2017)
Cato Institute, "GAO Weights in on 'Countering Violent Extremism'," (April 13, 2017)
Reason, "Do Muslims Commit Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks?" (March 24, 2017)
The Independent, "News Media Do Under-Report Some Terrorist Attacks - Just Not Those Involving Islamist Extremists," (March 13, 2017)
Pacific Standard, "Can Jack Bauer Convince You to Torture?" (January 5, 2015)
Vox, "Torture is a culture. Releasing the Senate report is a way of fighting it," (December 11, 2014)
The Washington Post, "The Senate CIA report says enhanced interrogation doesn't work. But Hollywood thinks it does," (December 10, 2014)
Vox, "'24' makes people support torture, and other discoveries political scientists made this year," (September 8, 2014)